Rebecca Foust’s “Bee Fugue,” also known as Mudlark Flash No. 52 (2009), was included in her most recent book, God, Seed, which won the 2010 Foreword Book Award and was a finalist for the Mass Book Award. Other books of hers include All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song (2010 Many Mountains Moving Book Award), two chapbooks, and a new manuscript recently shortlisted for the Dorset and Kathryn A. Morton prizes. She has new poems in current or forthcoming issues of The Cincinnati Review, The Hudson Review, Narrative, North American Review, Sewanee Review, and other journals; essays and book reviews in American Book Review, Calyx, Poetry Flash, Prairie Schooner, Rumpus, and elsewhere; and a short story in the current issue of Chautauqua Journal.